{"id":1505,"date":"2025-06-18T13:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essexheritage.org\/rev250\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1505"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:49:30","slug":"burying-ground-tour-3-sawyer-hill-and-newburyports-road-to-revolution","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/essexheritage.org\/rev250\/event\/burying-ground-tour-3-sawyer-hill-and-newburyports-road-to-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying Ground Tour 3 \u2013 Sawyer Hill and Newburyports Road to Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Bethany Groff Dorau for a fascinating journey through history as we explore the <strong>Sawyer Hill Burying Ground.<\/strong>\u00a0Discover the stories of the men and women who played a vital role in the\u00a0<strong>Revolutionary War<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sawyer Hill Burying Ground<\/strong>\u00a0has been the final resting place for many of the Newburys\u2019 dearly departed since 1695. The three-acre cemetery\u2019s oldest stone is from 1705 and belongs to Mrs. Hannah Bartlett, grandmother of Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Moses Little, hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill, also rests here, along with numerous other men and women who lived through the American Revolution on \u201cthe Plains\u201d in the west end of Newbury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important:<\/strong>\u00a0Please wear comfortable shoes and bring water. The tour involves walking on uneven terrain. Meet outside the rest rooms at the Maudslay State Park parking lot (parking fee).<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/burying-ground-tour-3-sawyer-hill-and-newburyports-road-to-revolution-tickets-1263003590739?aff=ebdsoporgprofile\"><strong>CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a> to purchase tickets<\/h4>\n<p><em>Funded, in part, by the Massachusetts Office of Travel &amp; Tourism<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7659\" src=\"http:\/\/newburyport250.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mass-250-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join Bethany Groff Dorau for a fascinating journey through history as we explore the Sawyer Hill Burying Ground.\u00a0Discover the stories of the men and women who played a vital role&#8230;","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1519,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1505","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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